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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. ...
by Bill Watterson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer) PHOTO

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. PHOTO

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

 

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy


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